Blowback: Prominent voices come to Trump’s defense after Putin summit

Blowback: Prominent voices come to Trump’s defense after Putin summit

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2018 While #TreasonSummit was trending among The Resistance and Never-Trumpers, among them former CIA director John Brennan, others hailed U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The mere fact of a U.S. president seeking better relations with Russia should not be controversial,” James S. Robbins, a Department […]

Mueller’s ‘politicized’ indictments hit as ‘improper’ interference in U.S. foreign policy

Mueller’s ‘politicized’ indictments hit as ‘improper’ interference in U.S. foreign policy

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2018 Three days before the Trump-Putin summit in Helskinki, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last week announced grand jury indictments of 12 Russian intelligence officers in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. And “there is absolutely no chance any of the Russian officials charged will ever see the inside […]

Putin agrees with Trump on securing Israel’s border with Syria

Putin agrees with Trump on securing Israel’s border with Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2018 The United States and Russia “will work jointly” to ensure the security of Israel at its border with Syria, President Donald Trump said after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16. “We both spoke with Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu) and they would like to do certain […]

Transatlantic divide; NATO then and now

Transatlantic divide; NATO then and now

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Donald Trump’s rhetorical thunderclap at the start of the NATO Summit sent political reverberations throughout allied capitals and put the pundits into overdrive as to what immeasurable damage the American president had caused while in Brussels. Indeed while chiding European allies on their woeful shortfalls […]

Trump on U.S.-Russia ties: ‘Never worse’ but getting better; ‘Where are the (DNC) servers?’

Trump on U.S.-Russia ties: ‘Never worse’ but getting better; ‘Where are the (DNC) servers?’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2018 U.S.-Russia relations “have never been worse” but “that changed as of about four hours ago,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 16 after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He then sparked bipartisan Washington outrage by challenging the U.S intelligence community investigation of alleged Russian collusion and publicly […]

U.S. rejects EU appeals for exemptions from Iran sanctions

U.S. rejects EU appeals for exemptions from Iran sanctions

by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2018 The United States considered but turned down requests from European Union members for wholesale exemptions on Iran sanctions that President Donald Trump said in May would be re-imposed after the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal. In order to avoid disrupting global oil markets, the U.S. will consider waivers […]

Collusion: Strzok details transfer of Russia dossier from Clinton camp to FBI

Collusion: Strzok details transfer of Russia dossier from Clinton camp to FBI

by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2018 In congressional testimony last week, anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok described how the Trump dossier made its way from Hillary Clinton’s team to the FBI, which relied on the unverified dossier heavily in its Russia investigation. Strzok said the FBI received the dossier, which was paid for by the Clinton campaign […]

Rand Paul: Russia is ‘going to spy on us . . . and we also do the same’

Rand Paul: Russia is ‘going to spy on us . . . and we also do the same’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2018 The Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was not surprising or new and was likely done in response to the Obama administration doing some meddling of its own in Russia’s elections, Sen. Rand Paul said on July 15. “I think really we mistake our response if we […]

‘The EU is a foe’: Trump backs Brexit, takes on the globalists

‘The EU is a foe’: Trump backs Brexit, takes on the globalists

by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 The European Union is a “foe” of the United States and it was the EU’s mass migration crisis that sparked the Brexit movement, President Donald Trump said on July 14. “I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do […]

Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

Trump has a few questions about Mueller’s indictment of Russians

by WorldTribune Staff, July 15, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on July 14 to respond to the Department of Justice’s indictment of 12 Russians for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election. The president also seized on the opportunity take a few shots at his predecessor, the “Deep State” and “Crooked Hillary.” Trump […]